(Jnnual Timber Prodacf of Northern 



Rev ^Ior^. 



By WILLIAM F. FOX, Supt. State Forests. 



THE amount of timber cut in the Adiron- 

 dack forests in 1898 exceeds that of any 

 other year since the time when the first 

 tree fell under the axe of the pioneer lumberman. 

 The production has increased steadily in recent 

 years, and, under the stimulus of the present 

 high prices for lumber and pulpwood, the annual 

 output of our forests will probably be increased 

 still further. 



The amount of timber (log measure) cut in 

 1 898 was as follows : 



Spruce (saw mills). 



" (pulp mills), 

 Hemlock, . 

 Pine, . 

 Hardwood, 



Total, . 



216,920,594 feet. 



229,581,918 " 



46,611,412 " 



33» 2 3 6 »4i° " 

 17,883,873 " 



544> 2 34,2Q7 feet. 



This is an increase of 93,238,791 feet, or 

 twenty per cent., over the production of the 

 previous year. The additional cutting is almost 

 entirely in the spruce. The amount used for 

 pulpwood is 63,494,046 feet more than was con- 

 sumed in 1897, an increase of thirty-eight per 

 cent, in one year. 



It appears that the saw mills and pulp mills 

 together consumed 446,502,512 feet of spruce. 

 To people unfamiliar with forestry matters these figures will probably convey little 

 meaning. Their significance will be better understood when it is stated that our 

 Adirondack forests, on an average, contain about 3,800 feet of spruce to the acre, 

 including the small pulp timber ; and that, consequently, the lumbermen and pulp- 

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